This is true! Though honestly the criteria for this list is so loose that nothing really makes any sense.
We just want to celebrate some new-ish artists that put out good music this year, but that doesn't lend itself to a grabby headline :P
New stuff next year for Kissi I think! They just missed the cutoff for BNB last year, so decided to slip them in here :)
And yeah, we've been on the Mitski train for a while now so she wasn't considered. If we had done a list in 2014 (we skipped that year), she would've def been on it.
I definitely see how the lyrics could be read as such (and you could be completely right! idk), but I ultimately came to the conclusion that, for as whiny as it is, it doesn't really read as disrespectful to me. Which is just my personal interpretation, but I do think it's very self-aware, and the song plays with perspective in an interesting way (see: I think most of the spoken word part is from Amber's "perspective," though I wouldn't fully commit to that).
Of course, the whole album could turn out to be some sadsack poor-me straight boy bullshit and I'll have to backtrack on this completely, but I am holding out hope that Longstreth isn't that dumb. And this is coming from someone who never really fucked with the Longstreth-only iteration of the band, and always thought Amber and Angel and etc's contributions were always the best parts. So we'll see!! But I feel you.
I just said the same thing in Slack a few minutes ago!! I think they're both pretty much perfect albums, but I listen to individual songs from SLM a lot more than BO nowadays.
"The Socialites" & "Unto Caesar" 4ever
Not sure if it'll actually work since you're in Canada, but I think there's a little glitch with the NPR embed because that's displaying for me too here in NY. Maybe try clicking through to the site because I can hear it then...
It was ok! I only caught the last half of it because Melvins were at the same time, but I was impressed for what it was... But I'm also very much not the target audience for it, so I didn't really have anything to say about it.
We'll definitely keep this in mind for the future. I know these exclusive streams are frustrating, and we mostly decide on a case-by-case basis whether it's worth posting/alerting you guys to their existence.
I decided to post this one since I know a lot of commenters are hyped on the band and I don't think the album's going to get any other coverage beyond this, so I wanted to give people a space to discuss it if they wanted to.
Get that it sucks if you're not an Apple Music subscriber, but also I personally hate all streaming services!! I'm still desperately clinging onto my mp3s...
Oh, those are two separate thoughts -- Devil & God is about to turn 10 in November, Daisy's only 7. I made it a little clearer up top.
My fave (and I think the most lauded) is D&G!
Ok, I get why maybe you'd be icked out by this in that regard, but as far as I can gather Sarah (who is in the photo + leads the band) has been responsible for all the visuals for her project, and I'd imagine it's the same for this.
Don't really see how it's "problematic." Sure, it's ~provocative~, but it's pretty clearly (to me) a play off the whole aesthetic of Virgin Suicides and other movies of that ilk.
I totally felt the same way at first! But after a few more listens and some long car rides, I warmed up to it a lot more. Perfect Cast and You're Gonna Miss It All definitely have stronger hooks, but I admire what they did ~artistically~ and ~thematically~ here a lot more.
Spend some more time with it (if you want!), it could grow on you.
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